Guy de Rothschild and his son, David, were yesterday re-elected by an overwhelming majority to the executive committee of France’s major Jewish organization, the United Jewish Welfare Fund (FSJU). Both Rothschilds were reelected in spite of reports that several members of the FSJU National Council, the organization’s permanent general assembly, would vote against them because of the banking family’s overly close ties with the former Administration of President Valery Giscard d’Estaing.
Members of the Rothschild family have headed most of France’s major Jewish institutions since the post-war years. Several Jewish splinter movements have bitterly attacked them, claiming they had not opposed vigorously enough Giscard’s Middle East policy and of having been lukewarn in their support of Israel. Both Guy and David de Rothschild have adamantly denied these claims and have reiterated on numerous occasions their support for Israel.
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